On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:31:36PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > I don't think they are willing to send the message to the world that they > will not support what they have created. This is conjecture on my part. > But if I were a paying customer and I saw that happen, I would probably look > for another distro.
Well, it depends what you mean by "paying customer" ... They're still going to do (only going to do actually) Enterprise RedHat Linux. Support, updates, etc. So if you're paying for RHEL, no problem there. If you've purchased a box RH9 or something, or an entitlement for RHN for non-EL, that's another issue. At work I have 9 AS, 2 ES, and 5 non-EL boxes. I've been told in no uncertain terms by the regional sales rep that updates, at least, for non-EL versions will stop around April of next year. I would imagine that means that support for those versions will stop too. I'm not sure what we're going to do with the non-EL boxes. I think we'll probably end up switching the non-essential boxes to Fedora, and the rest to ES or WS, depending on how "server" class they are. <sigh> It does make sense I guess though, the non-EL side of things is very likely not making RH much (if any) money. So they can offload that to "the community", and focus on the EL side of things. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "That's the logical thing, but logic and show business rarely dine at the same table." - J. Michael Straczynski
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